To support HSLDA’s litigation, education and lobbying efforts, click here. Contributions or gifts to HSLDA are not tax deductible. To make a tax-deductible gift to the Homeschool Freedom Fund, which will fund litigation and education of the public, click here. For more information about these two opportunities to support the work of HSLDA see the FAQ here.

Join 20,000 others...

The HSLDA Curriculum Market is buzzing with activity! Save money on new and used homeschooling materials, or sell your extras.

You Can Help!

The Home School Foundation supports homeschool families in need. Whether it's a widow or a family suffering after a natural disaster, HSF is there to help. You can give directly, or through our Clicks For Homeschooling program; online merchants contribute to HSF when you shop!

Your Calls are Working—Keep it up!

Keep calling.

Vote on HCR 11 as Early as Thursday

Your calls are working, and the Senate is getting the message. But your calls are still needed to defeat or amend HCR 11—the first step in imposing Common Core on the people of Michigan.

HCR 11 could be considered by the Senate Government Operations Committee as early as this Thursday. Thankfully, because of your calls, many senators are showing signs of opposition to HCR 11. But your calls are still needed to strengthen their resolve to oppose or amend the resolution. HCR 11 would allow the state Department of Education to spend money implementing Common Core Standards, including federally controlled SMARTER tests.

Please call the Government Operations Committee members and your own senator and ask them to oppose HCR 11 and the SMARTER test requirements.

Action Requested

Please contact your own senator and the members of the Senate Government Operations Committee and give them the following message in your own words:

“Please vote to oppose HCR 11 or amend it to remove the requirement for federally controlled SMARTER tests. These tests facilitate the increasing federalization of education with the potential to infringe upon the liberty of all parents to direct the education of their children. HCR 11 undermines local control of education through the SMARTER testing requirement. Please vote to amend HCR 11 or oppose the bill if it is not amended.”

Thank you for all you do in defense of freedom for families in the great state of Michigan!

Very truly yours,

Michael P. Donnelly, Esq.
HSLDA Staff Attorney

P.S. We greatly value you and your support—it is a privilege to serve you. Thank you for all you do for freedom! If you or someone you know is not a member of HSLDA, will you consider taking a moment today to join or recommend us? Your support for our work enables us to defend individual families threatened by government officials and protect homeschooling freedom for all. Join now >>

• • • •

Is Customer Service an Art or a Science?

For us, good customer service is both an art and a science—it should appeal to our members and be effective. Consider what
our members say about us:

We’re thankful for the support HSLDA membership provides us. We’d
never homeschool without them. We highly recommend HSLDA to all
homeschoolers.—North Tonawanda, NY

POSTMASTERS: This message is being sent to the most recent address we have for our subscribers. If this is an invalid email address or you have other problems, please reply to webmaster@hslda.org.

DISCLAIMER: This is considered a private and confidential message from HSLDA to its bonafide HSLDA E-lert Service subscribers. HSLDA cannot attest to the authenticity of copies posted, forwarded, or sent by any party other than HSLDA.

NOTE: Please do not reply or otherwise use this email address; hslda@hslda.org is for broadcast purposes only and is not intended to receive incoming messages. We cannot reply to any email sent to this address. If you have comments or questions, please send email to info@hslda.org or call HSLDA at 540-338-5600. HSLDA members can also email staff directly through the Members website at http://members.hslda.org/contact.asp. Thank you for your cooperation.